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LOGOS INOXFORD

CONFERENCE HANDBOOK 2016

CONTENTS Welcome letters .................................................................................................................... 2

Logos in Oxford Personnel ................................................................................................. 4Additional MOTB staff .......................................................................................................................... 4

Additional SCIO staff ............................................................................................................................ 4

Programme of Meetings ...................................................................................................... 5

Speakers ............................................................................................................................. 14

Additional Conference Information ................................................................................ 26SCIO: Scholarship and Christianity In Oxford .................................................................................. 27

8 Norham Gardens .............................................................................................................................. 27

The Vines .............................................................................................................................................. 28

St Hugh’s College ................................................................................................................................. 29

Wycliffe Hall ........................................................................................................................................ 29

Mentors .............................................................................................................................. 30

Student Directory .............................................................................................................. 31

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Logos is a summer conference on biblical texts, vocation, and the Christian mind, organized on behalf of the Museum of the Bible Scholars Initiative by SCIO.

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WELCOME LETTERS

Dear Colleagues,

ongratulations on being selected for this 2016 iteration of the Logos program, and on being invited to join the Logos Fellowship. I’m delighted to welcome you to Oxford, and look forward to joining you later in person. I pray this will be a rich time of learning and fellowship

for each of you.

Both the Logos program and the Logos Fellowship reflect the heartfelt desires of our patrons, the Green family from Oklahoma City, to assist in mentoring the next generation of textual scholars by providing opportunities both for research (in connection with the Museum Collection) and for reflection (in a context that affirms the primacy of Scripture and the enduring value of the historic creeds of the church for the life of faith). In many respects the Logos program exemplifies the classic idea of fides quaerens intellectum, ‘faith seeking understanding’, and we hope that your time in Oxford will in some way assist you towards that goal. After Logos, the Logos Fellowship will keep you in contact with others on the same journey, a network of like-minded colleagues wrestling with similar issues and challenges as you seek faithfully to live out God’s call on your life, regardless of where that may take you.

Again, congratulations on your selection, and best wishes for your time in Oxford.

Blessings,

Michael Holmes Executive Director, Scholars Initiative

Museum of the Bible supports scholarship and academic research through the Scholars Initiative, which brings together established and young scholars to pioneer groundbreaking

research on items in the Museum Collection. Formed in the summer of 2010, Scholars Initiative allows the world’s leading textual scholars to research and produce scholarship on items in the Museum Collection while mentoring students. More than 60 universities around the world are

currently participating in the Scholars Initiative, and others are in the process of joining.

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Dear Logos scholars,

n behalf of SCIO, we congratulate you on your selection to this event and warmly welcome you to Oxford where

our team has been actively engaged since 1991. We hope the coming fortnight of lectures, workshops, excursions, cultural experience, and community enriches you and your study of the Bible. At SCIO we have the great pleasure of working with the Green family and the Museum of the Bible Scholars Initiative on multiple projects: creating and managing research projects in the UK on Museum Collection and Green Collection artefacts, advising on curatorial presentations in our areas of scholarship, working with them on the special focus of the Bible and science, and co-authoring some of the exhibit guides, and the like. But in particular, we take special delight in designing and running the Logos in Oxford conference each year; it stands out as our central activity in support of the Scholars Initiative.

We are grateful to be part of such a dynamic vision to draw burgeoning scholars into critical discussions and opportunities for serious research, thus making the tools of research available rather than reserving them for only the most seasoned, international scholars. We share this commitment to the formation of new generations of scholars. But beyond the enriching research, we have witnessed (and been part of) the formation of enduring friendships, intellectual development, vocational discoveries, and the deepening of faith. We are grateful for the Museum’s trust and partnership and look forward to another rich year of working with them and you.

All this we do coram deo.

Stan Rosenberg Logos in Oxford Director and SI Regional Director for the UK; Executive Director of SCIO

Jonathan Kirkpatrick Logos in Oxford Academic Coordinator; and SI Associate Regional Director for the UK; Director of Studies in Art History and Classics, SCIO

SCIO is the UK centre of the Council of Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) and runs several courses including the Oxford Summer Programme and the Scholars’ Semester in Oxford.

SCIO’s aim To foster scholarly engagement, intellectual excellence, and authentic Christian spirituality and the connections between them within an international academic

SCIO’s objectives To help students drawn largely from CCCU colleges realise their academic and personal

potential at Oxford, at graduate or professional school, and throughout life. To foster high quality research on the part of its staff and faculty from CCCU colleges as

individuals and as members of research programmes based at SCIO. To cultivate a community of alumni who support each other and SCIO's mission.

To enable its staff to develop professionally and flourish personally.

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Brian Clark Mobile: 0739 9321824 [email protected]


LOGOS IN OXFORD PERSONNEL

Patrons and founders, Logos in Oxford Steve and Jackie Green

Executive Director, Scholars Initiative Michael Holmes

Executive Director of Education, Museum of the Bible

Jerry Pattengale

Logos Director and SI Regional Director, UK Stan Rosenberg Mobile: 07801 720603 [email protected]

Academic Coordinator, Logos in Oxford Jonathan Kirkpatrick Mobile: 07766 203138 [email protected]

Administrators, Logos in Oxford Joyce François Mobile: 07862 245707 [email protected]

Alice Stainer [email protected]

Assistant Coordinator, Logos in Oxford

Warden at The Vines Thiago Alves Pinto

Additional MOTB staff Cary Summers President, Museum of the Bible Amy Van Dyke Curator of Art and Education Christian Askeland SI Regional Director of Central US and Canada Robert Duke SI Regional Director of Western US and Canada Jeffrey Fish SI Regional Director of Oklahoma and Texas Martin Heide SI Regional Director of Greater Europe Sheri Klouda SI Regional Director of Southeast US Tommy Wasserman SI Regional Director of Northern Europe

Additional SCIO staff Elizabeth Baigent Senior Tutor and Academic Director Simon Lancaster Associate Director Claire Shuttleworth Academic Co-ordinator Geoff Dargan Junior Dean John Roche Lecturer in the history of science Michael Burdett Research Fellow and Director of Studies in Religion, Science and

Technology, and Project Coordinator, Bridging Two Cultures Miguel Farias Director of Studies and Lecturer in psychology Richard Lawes Director of Studies and Lecturer in English Matthew Kirkpatrick Director of Studies and Lecturer in philosophy and theology


PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS

Wednesday 1 June 5:00 The Vines Dinner and opening of workshop

Thursday 2 June 9:00–9:20 St Hugh’s Chapel Chapel service 9:30–10:30 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room and Foyer Introduction Stan Rosenberg and Jonathan Kirkpatrick

10:30–11:00 Coffee 11:00–12:00 Lecture Series: Current Issues in Textual Studies

Stan Rosenberg Beside books: preaching and oral culture in late antiquity

12:00–12:40 Wordsworth Room Lunch 1:00–1:30 Wycliffe Hall (depart

from Wordsworth Room, St Hugh’s, at 12:40)

Orientation Chris Leftley Wycliffe Hall Library

5:00–6:30 Maplethorpe Seminar Room

Special Lectures Jonathan Kirkpatrick Winchester

6:30–7:30 Wordsworth Room Dinner

T e o a e o le u es and esen a ons a o os n ludes ee s ands o e e a e des ned o s ula e nd and s

Current issues in textual studiesT ese le u es on e n a eas n e ead n o anus s and e ed n o e s

o e on en ous, d ul , and n e es n T s ena les s uden s o n es a e d e en a ade elds, so e o ay e un a l a , and o a e, sol e, o u en

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Oxford, scholarship, and the Christian mindu e ous u es o a e ade a ea a on e s o y o e u e e edu a ed

and s en s n an a s o e a ee s a o d l ou e ole o ese u es n a de s o al on e s ell unde s ood, e a layed y e o d un e s y

en on en n s a n e l es s no al ays a e a ed T e sa e an e sa d o o e a n luen ed e s ola s T ese le u es e a ne so e e a a le nd duals

o o e ou o e un e s y, and ease ou o e ays o n n , and a ey ea ed and o e, e e ond oned y e o d on e

The vocation of Christian scholars in the modern university en al as e o o os a es la e n a se es o d s uss ons n a an s lea n

a ou e n e se on o a and o a on n e e e en e o sen o o d s ola s o a ous a ade elds T ese d s uss ons ena le s uden s o ea a s l e o u sue a

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Lectures at Logos


Friday 3 June 9:00–9:20 St Hugh’s Chapel Chapel service 9:30–10:30 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room and Foyer Lecture Series: Current Issues in Textual Studies Alison Salvesen Greek versions of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: what are they, and why do they matter?

10:30–11:00 Coffee 11:00–12:00 The Vocation of Christian Scholars in the Modern

University Helen Moore

12:00–12:40 Wordsworth Room Lunch 1:00–3:00 Starting from the

Wordsworth Room Walking tour of Oxford

4:00–5:00 Meet at Maplethorpe Foyer

Breakout Session for Students Led by Logos Fellows


Lecture Series: Oxford, Scholarship, and the Christian Mind Andrew Atherstone Oxford from Reformation to Restoration

6:30–7:30 Wordsworth Room Dinner 8:00–9:00 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room Conversation via the Internet Steve and Jackie Green

Saturday 4 June 8:30–6:00 Departing from The

Vines Scholarly excursion Winchester

Sunday 5 June SI Mentors arrive

6:00 pm Christ Church Cathedral

Evensong, for those who wish to join us. Many other churches in Oxford have services today, and guidance will be given to delegates who wish to attend them.

Punting at Cambridge


Monday 6 June 9:00–9:20 St Hugh’s Chapel Chapel service 9:30–10:30 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room and Foyer The Vocation of Christian Scholars in the Modern University Peter Williams

10:30–11:00 Coffee 11:00–12:00 Special Lectures

Michelle Brown Painted prayer: the Lindisfarne Gospels as a means of embodying godspel (Old English ‘good news’)

12:00–12:40 Maplethorpe Hall Lunch 1:30–3:00 8 Norham Gardens Hebrew Seminar

Sheri Klouda 1:30–3:00 Oriental Institute Syriac Seminar

David Taylor 5:00– : Maplethorpe Seminar

Room Presentation Michael Lloyd Study centre, think tank, or vicar factory: what is the role of a divinity school in a global university?

: –6:30 Presentation Stan Rosenberg

n u , n n, o e n on n e na onal sa on, edu a on, and de elo n

al e na es o e a ed e ula d de6:30–7:30 Maplethorpe Hall Dinner

Bodleian Library, Oxford


Tuesday 7 June 9:00–9:20 St Hugh’s Chapel Chapel service 9:30–10:30 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room and Foyer Presentation Logos Fellows Current SI projects

10:30–11:00 Coffee 11:00–12:00 Special Lectures

Ralph Hanna Bible, No! Delight, Yes!: sermons in late medieval England

12:00–12:40 Maplethorpe Hall Lunch 1:30–3:00 8 Norham Gardens Hebrew Seminar

Sheri Klouda 1:30–3:00 8 Norham Gardens Latin Seminar

Ralph Hanna 3:30–5:00 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room Breakout Session for Mentors Led by Christian Askeland


Lecture Series: Current Issues in Textual Studies Michelle Brown Transmitting the Word: medieval manuscript Bibles, their production and study

6:30–7:30 Maplethorpe Hall Dinner

Logos lecture, St Hugh's College,


Wednesday 8 June 8:25 am – 8:00 pm Departures:

8:25 Galaxie 8:30 Linton Lodge 8:45 The Vines

Scholarly excursion Cambridge

11:00–1:00 Tyndale House Visit to Tyndale House Hosted by Peter Williams

1:00–2:00 Tyndale House Lunch 2:00–3:00 Tyndale House Special Lecture

Christopher de Hamel Matthew Parker and the manuscripts which made the English Reformation

3:30–5:00 Corpus Christi College Visits to the Parker library Hosted by Christopher de Hamel

5:00–6:00 By the Cam Picnic dinner

"And that sweet City with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening"

Matthew Arnold, 'Thyrsis', 1866(but June helps)


Thursday 9 June 9:00–9:20 St Hugh’s Chapel Chapel service 9:30–10:30 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room and Foyer The Vocation of Christian Scholars in the Modern University Alister McGrath


Siam Bhayro The importance of magic bowls for biblical and other studies

12:00–12:40 Maplethorpe Hall Lunch 1:00–2:30 Christ Church Greek Seminar: Group A

Dirk Obbink and assistants 1:30–3:00 8 Norham Gardens Hebrew Seminar

Sheri Klouda 1:30–3:00 Oriental Institute Syriac Seminar

David Taylor 3:30–5:00 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room Breakout Session for Mentors Led by Christian Askeland

4:00–5:00 Meet at Maplethorpe Foyer

Breakout Session for Students Led by Logos Fellows


Lecture Series: Oxford, Scholarship, and the Christian Mind Alister McGrath C.S. Lewis and Dorothy Sayers

6:30–7:30 Maplethorpe Hall Dinner

Balliol College and the Martyrs' Memorial, Oxford


Friday 10 June 9:00–9:20 St Hugh’s Chapel Chapel service 9:30–10:30 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room and Foyer Lecture Series: Current Issues in Textual Studies Dirk Obbink The Oxyrhynchus papyri

10:30–11:00 Coffee 11:00–12:00 Presentation

Jerry Pattengale Facilitating the next generation of biblical scholars: the status and aspirations of the Scholars Initiative

12:00–12:40 Wordsworth Room Lunch Greek Seminar: Group A Dirk Obbink and ass s an s

1:30–3:00 8 Norham Gardens Latin Seminar Ralph Hanna

1:30–3:00 Oriental Institute Syriac Seminar David Taylor

3:00–4:30 Greek Seminar: Group BDirk Obbink and ass s an s


Lecture Series: Oxford, Scholarship, and the Christian Mind Gordon Campbell and Helen Moore The King James Version

6:30–7:30 T Dinner 8:00–9:00 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room Lecture Series: Current Issues in Textual Studies Larry Hurtado Early Christianity as a bookish religion

Saturday 11 June

Day off

Sunday 12 June 8:00–7:00 Departing from The

Vines Optional day out London, with visits to the British Library and British Museum

St Cross Church, Hospital of St Cross, Winchester

Papyrology Room

Christ Church

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Monday 13 June 9:00–9:20 St Hugh’s Chapel Chapel service 9:30–10:30 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room and Foyer Lecture Series: Oxford, Scholarship, and the Christian Mind Andrew Atherstone Oxford convert and global export: Bishop J.C. Ryle (1816–1900), prince of evangelical tract writers


Elizabeth Baigent Reading maps: words, images, and silences in early cartography

12:00–12:40 Wordsworth Room Lunch 1:00–2:30 Papyrology Room Greek Seminar: Group B

Dirk Obbink and assistants 1:30–3:00 8 Norham Gardens Latin Seminar

Ralph Hanna 3:00–4:30 Christ Church Greek Seminar: Group A

Dirk Obbink and assistants 5:00–6:30 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room Panel Discussion Markus Bockmuehl and Michael Holmes Making a career in textual studies: at research universities, divinity schools, and Christian colleges

6:30–7:30 Wordsworth Room Dinner

Magdalen College, Oxford


Tuesday 14 June 9:00–9:20 St Hugh’s Chapel Chapel service 9:30–10:30 Maplethorpe Seminar

Room and Foyer The Vocation of Christian Scholars in the Modern University Stephen Tuck

10:30–11:00 Coffee 11:00–12:00 Lecture Series: Oxford, Scholarship, and the

Christian Mind William Whyte Oxford’s visual culture and nineteenth-century theology

12:00–12:40 Wordsworth Room Lunch 1:00–2:30 Christ Church Greek Seminar: Group B

Dirk Obbink and assistants 4:00–5:00 Meet at Maplethorpe

Foyer Breakout Session for Students Led by Logos Fellows


Presentation Logos Fellows Current SI projects

6:30–7:30 T Dinner

Wednesday 15 June By 9:00 am The Vines Departure

St Hugh's College, Oxford


SPEAKERS

Steve Green

President of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

Chairman of the Board of the Museum of the Bible

obby Lobby began operation on 3 August 1972, with three hundred square feet of retail space located in north Oklahoma City. This was a retail outgrowth of Greco Products, a miniature picture frame company founded in 1970 by Steve’s father, David Green, when he

borrowed $600.00 to buy a molding chopper, set up shop in his garage at home, and started making miniature wooden picture frames. In 1972 the first retail operation was opened in a 600 square foot strip mall at NW 23rd and Robinson in Oklahoma City.

Steve graduated from high school in 1981 and began working full time as the Store Operations Supervisor. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in 2000 and named President of Hobby Lobby in December of 2004. In 2013, Green was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity Degree by Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and in 2015, Mid-American Christian University presented him with an Honorary Doctorate of Biblical Literature.

Hobby Lobby is foremost an arts & crafts store, but includes many departments such as hobbies, picture framing, jewelry making, fashion fabrics, floral, cards & party, baskets, wearable art, home accents and holiday merchandise. Hobby Lobby employs approximately 30,000 people and operates over 600 stores in 47 states. Hobby Lobby sales for 2014 total more than $3.65 billion. Hobby Lobby is the largest privately owned arts and crafts retailer in the world. The headquarters are located in a 7 million square foot manufacturing, distribution and office complex in Oklahoma City. Affiliated companies include Hemispheres and Mardel, a popular Christian office and educational supply chain found in six states. Hobby Lobby also has offices in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China.

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Steve’s father David is the Founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby and his mother Barbara is a Buyer for Hobby Lobby and Hemispheres. His brother Mart Green is the CEO of Mardel Stores, and his sister Darsee Lett is the Vice President of Hobby Lobby Art/Creative.

In 2009, the Green Family purchased its first biblical artifact. Today Steve devotes half his time to what has become known as The Green Collection, which is among the world’s newest and largest private collections of rare biblical texts and artifacts. The collection of more than 40,000 biblical antiquities will eventually become the core of an international, non-sectarian museum of the Bible and will be the subject of ongoing scholarly research through the Museum of the Bible Scholars Initiative. In the summer of 2011, 400 items from the collection were put on display in a traveling exhibit called Passages which began in Oklahoma City and then moved to Atlanta, Charlotte, Colorado Springs, Springfield, MO, and is now open in Santa Clarita, CA. It will be traveling to other cities nationwide. On 1 March 2012, over 100 items were put on display at the Vatican in Rome during Lent in an international traveling exhibit called Verbum Domini. This international exhibit has since gone to Cuba and returned to the Vatican in 2014. The Book of Books exhibit was on display in Israel from 2013 to 2014.

Steve has authored two books. His first, Faith in America (2011), tells the history of the advertisements that Hobby Lobby places in newspapers across the United States each year to share the real meaning of Christmas, Easter and Independence Day. In his second book, The Bible in America (2013), Steve presents a never before seen view of who we are as a nation and as individuals and how the Bible has guided our history and continues to shape our national and personal destiny. Both can be purchased at Hobby Lobby stores across the nation.

Steve and his wife Jackie have been married for over 30 years and reside in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They are the proud parents of one son and five daughters. Within the last few years they have added a daughter-in-law, son-in-law, and four beautiful grandchildren. They are actively involved at their church, as well as many other national and international Christian ministries and charities.

Jackie Green

Jackie Green is a full-time homemaker who relishes her roles of wife, mother to six children, mother-in-law, and “Gigi” to four grandchildren. Married to her high-school sweetheart, Steve, for more than 30 years, Jackie actively supports him in his high-profile role as president of Hobby Lobby and Chairman of the Board of Museum of the Bible. She has just completed a project where she assisted with the plans and design of a beautiful building for the company’s conference center known as the Legacy House.

Jackie homeschooled for thirteen years and now serves on the Board of her younger children’s private Christian school. An adoptive mom herself, Jackie served on the Advisory Board of a local Crisis Pregnancy Center and has worked with her family in orphanages worldwide, and has assisted several agencies in making adoption financially possible.

Over the past six years, Jackie has assisted Steve on the Museum of the Bible project and has volunteered and worked first hand with the Development Team in a variety of areas such as hospitality and event planning. She has also worked with the museum buyers to design and order special items to be given away as gifts at their events. She has spoken at many events, hosted events, done interviews and appeared in videos discussing the many different aspects of the museum.

Jackie’s other involvements include her home church and Christian charities both national and international. Although she is a world traveler, her favorite place is with her family.


Dr Andrew Atherstone

Tutor in History and Doctrine and Latimer Research Fellow, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford

MA (Cantab), MSt, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS

Dr Atherstone is a member of Oxford University’s Faculty of Theology and Religion. His research focuses on the history of the Christian Church, especially the dynamic between Anglicanism and evangelicalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His recent books include Archbishop Justin Welby: risk-taker and reconciler (2014); Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the twentieth century (as co-editor, 2014); and The journal of Bishop Daniel Wilson of Calcutta, 1845‒1857 (2015). His current research focuses on the leading Evangelical bishop and tract-writer John Charles Ryle (1816‒1900), with a critical edition of Ryle’s autobiography due out in summer 2016 and a critical edition of his correspondence in 2017. Dr Atherstone is a member of both the Faith and Order Commission and the Liturgical Commission of the Church of England.

Dr Elizabeth Baigent

University Reader in the History of Geography SCIO Senior Tutor and Academic Director

MA (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), PGDipLATHE (Oxon), FSA, FRHistS, FRGS, FHEA

Dr Baigent was educated at the universities of Oxford and Münster. She has held research fellowships at the universities of Oxford and Stockholm and a visiting professorship at Johns Hopkins University, with funding from bodies such as the British Academy and the Fulbright Commission.

From 1993 to 2003 she was Research Director of the Oxford dictionary of national biography and Research Lecturer in the History Faculty. She has 561 scholarly publications including a (co-authored) book which won an international prize; her book on Octavia Hill, Victorian social reformer and co-founder of the National Trust, appeared in 2016. She is Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Higher Education Academy.


Prof Siam Bhayro

Accociate Lecturer in Early Jewish Studies, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Exeter

BA, PhD (University College London)

Professor Siam Bhayro was appointed Associate Professor in Early Jewish Studies in 2016, having previously been Senior Lecturer since 2012 and Lecturer since 2007. He graduated in 1997 with a First Class Honours degree in Hebrew from the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London. He was also awarded the Faculty of Arts Prize and Medallion for that session. He gained a PhD from the same department in June 2000 for his research into the Book of Enoch. For the next two years he worked on the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew at the University of Sheffield, before working for three years as Lector of Semitic Languages in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, one year as Wellcome Trust Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, and, finally before arriving at Exeter, one year as Research Associate at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, University of Cambridge. He can often be seen walking his Basenji, Tiglath-Pileser III, around Exeter, and is a season ticket holder for his beloved Arsenal.

Prof Markus Bockmuehl

Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, University of Oxford

BA (British Columbia), MCS/MDiv (Regent), PhD (Cantab)

Markus Bockmuehl is a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and teaches biblical and early Christian studies, having also served for two years as Associate Head of the University’s Humanities Division (with responsibility for graduate studies). Before coming to Oxford in 2007 he was a professor at the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge, following a previous appointment at Regent College and the University of British Columbia, Canada. He teaches across a wide range of New Testament as well as ancient Jewish and Christian studies; his current research focuses on early Christian eschatology. Key publications include This Jesus (1994), The Epistle to the Philippians (1997), Seeing the Word: refocusing New Testament study (2006), Simon Peter in scripture and memory (2012), and Ancient apocryphal gospels (forthcoming 2017).


Prof Michelle Brown

Professor Emerita in Medieval Manuscript Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London

PhD (University College London), FSA

Michelle P. Brown is Professor Emerita in Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London. She is also a Visiting Professor at University College London and at Baylor University, Texas, and is a Senior Scholar, MOTB Scholars Initiative, and a Senior Researcher, University of Oslo.

She was formerly the Curator of Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, where she worked from 1986 to 2011, and was a Lay Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral, London. She has lectured, published, and broadcast widely on book history, medieval cultural studies, and early Christian history and has curated several major exhibitions, including ‘Painted labyrinth: the world of the Lindisfarne Gospels’ (British Library) and ‘Bibles before the year 1000’ (Smithsonian). Her books include A guide to western historical scripts from antiquity to 1600 (1990), The Luttrell Psalter (2006), How Christianity came to Britain and Ireland (2006), In the beginning: Bibles before the year 1000 (as editor, 2006), The Holkham Bible (2008), The Lion companion to Christian art (2008), Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon age (2008), The Lindisfarne Gospels and the early medieval world (2011), and The book and the transformation of Britain (2011).

Prof Gordon Campbell

Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester

MA (Queen’s, Canada), DPhil, DLitt (York), Dr hc (Bucharest), FBA, FSA, FLS, FRHistS, FRGS, FRAS, HonFEA

Gordon Campbell is Fellow in Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester. Having taken a DPhil and DLitt from York, he was awarded

an honorary doctorate from Bucharest. He is a specialist in the Renaissance and seventeenth century with a particular interest in John Milton. Broader interests on which he has published include art, architecture, biblical studies, classical antiquity, garden history, legal history, historical theology, and the Islamic world. His more recent publications include Bible: the story of the King James Version 1611–2011 (2010) and The hermit in the garden: from Imperial Rome to ornamental gnome (2013), and he is the editor of The Holy Bible: quatercentenary edition (2010). He is an active Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society, and the Royal Geographical Society. In 2011 he gave some seventy talks on the King James Version in Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Ireland, Romania, Switzerland, the USA, and the Vatican. In 2015 he was part of the team that wrote the liturgies for the re-burial of Richard III, and at the re-interment service he delivered the eulogy of the king. He has just finished a book called A short history of gardens and is at present editing the Oxford illustrated history of the Renaissance and writing a book called Norse America.


Dr Christopher de Hamel

Fellow and Librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

DPhil (Oxon), PhD (Cantab), Dr hc (St John’s, Minnesota, and Otago, New Zealand)

Dr Christopher de Hamel will retire at the end of this year from the Fellow Librarianship of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he has been, since 2000, responsible for the Parker Library, one of the finest small collections of medieval manuscripts in the world. For twenty-five years from 1975, he was in charge of all sales of medieval and illuminated manuscripts at Sotheby’s worldwide. He has written numerous books, including A history of illuminated manuscripts (1986, new edn 1994), Scribes and illuminators (1992), The Book: a history of the Bible (2001), and Bibles: an illustrated history from papyrus to print (2011). His latest book, Meetings with remarkable manuscripts, will be published by Penguin later this year. Christopher de Hamel has four doctorates (DPhil from Oxford, PhD from Cambridge, and honorary LittDs from St John’s, Minnesota, and Otago University, New Zealand). A Senior Scholar with MOTBSI, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Historical Society; he is a member of the (elected) Comité International de Paléographie Latine, the Roxburghe Club, and the Athenaeum. He has been Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Sandars Reader in Bibliography, University of Cambridge; and Lyell Reader in Bibliography, University of Oxford; and he was appointed to give the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library for 2014, on medieval Bibles.

Prof Ralph Hanna

Emeritus Professor of Palaeography, University of Oxford

BA (Amherst), MA, PhD (Yale)

Ralph Hanna is Emeritus Professor of Palaeography at the University of Oxford. Hanna received his BA from Amherst College and his MA and PhD from Yale University. He has spent most of his career investigating the regional literature of later medieval England. His work integrates literary study, the local history of England, and the

production history of those manuscript books through which we know medieval literary production. His publications include ‘John Dygon, fifth recluse of Sheen: his career, books and acquaintance’, in J. Thompson (ed.), Imagining the book (2006); The knightly tale of Golagros and Gawane: a critical edition (2008); ‘Some North Yorkshire scribes and their context’, in G.D. Caie and D. Renevey (eds), Medieval texts in context (2008); ‘Lambeth Palace Library, MS 260 and the problem of English vernacularity’, in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd ser., 5 (2008); Speculum Vitae: a reading edition (2 vols, 2009); and The English manuscripts of Richard Rolle: a descriptive catalogue (2010). Much of his past research has been generously underwritten by various academic patrons, among them the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Dr Hanna was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2011–12. He is currently engaged in writing acommentary of Piers Plowman and editing hitherto unpublished Latin works of Richard Rolle.


Prof Michael Holmes

University Professor of Biblical Studies and Early Christianity, Bethel

University

Executive Director, MOTB Scholars Initiative

BA (University of California at Santa Barbara), MA (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), PhD (Princeton Seminary)

Michael Holmes has taught at Bethel since 1982, and was Chair of the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies from 2001 to 2009. He was previously on the faculty at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Princeton Theological Seminary, and has been Visiting Scholar at Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul. His primary research interests are New Testament textual criticism and the Apostolic Fathers (a collection of early Christian writings). Current projects include a commentary on the Martyrdom of Polycarp and a study of the formation of the New Testament canon. His publications include several books, fifty articles, essays, or chapters in books, and more than 230 book reviews (covering more than 250 books in 23 journals). In 1995, Holmes was awarded a Society of Biblical Literature Research and Publication Grant for the International Greek New Testament John Project. He currently serves as chair of the board of directors for the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, and is the editor of the SBL Text-Critical Studies monograph series. He speaks and teaches frequently at Twin Cities churches, universities, and seminaries, has served as an interim pastor, and is a long-term member of Trinity Baptist Church (Maplewood, MN). He has served as head of the Scholars Initiative since 2014.

Dr Larry W. Hurtado

Emeritus Professor of New Testament Language, Literature & Theology at New College, The University of Edinburgh

BA (Central Bible College), MA (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), PhD (Case Western Reserve)

Larry Hurtado has taught at Regent College, Vancouver, at the University of Manitoba, and at the University of Edinburgh (1996–2011). In 1997 he founded the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins at Edinburgh, which he served in the capacity of Director; he was also Head of the School of Divinity (2007–10). Although he retired in 2011, he remains active in research, and he and his wife continue to live in Edinburgh.

His research interests focus in particular on the growth of devotion to Jesus in the context of Jewish monotheism and on the usefulness of early Christian manuscripts, considered as physical artifacts, for the history of the early Church. Among his many publications are: Text-critical methodology and the pre-Caesarean text: Codex W in the Gospel of Mark (1981), Lord Jesus Christ: devotion to Jesus in earliest Christianity (2003), The earliest Christian artifacts: manuscripts and Christian origins (2006), Why on earth did anyone become a Christian in the first three centuries? (2016), and Destroyer of the gods: early Christian distinctiveness in the Roman world (forthcoming September 2016).


Dr Jonathan Kirkpatrick

Director of Studies in Classics and the History of Art, SCIO, and Logos in Oxford Academic Coordinator

BA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon)

Jonathan Kirkpatrick has worked with visiting American undergraduates at the University of Oxford for many years, serving SCIO first as Junior Dean (Resident Director) and latterly as Director of Studies in Classics and the History of Art. He also worked for two years as Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. In 2011 he completed a doctoral thesis on pagan religion in Roman Palestine; his academic interests include Roman religion, Greek and Roman literature and art, Second Temple Judaism, rabbinic literature, and Dionysus. For three years he was a Scholar in Residence at The Kilns, C.S. Lewis’s former home, and he has lectured on C.S. Lewis and the Classics at numerous American universities; he is now Warden at The Kilns. In 2014 he co- authored the catalogue for the Vatican exhibition ‘Verbum Domini II: God’s Word goes out to the nations’.

Revd Dr Michael Lloyd

Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford

MA (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon)

Michael Lloyd is the Principal of Wycliffe Hall. He has taught theology at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and is the author of the popular-level systematic theology Café theology (2005). He wrote his doctoral thesis on the problem of evil, which he hopes is why his students call him Dr Evil. He loves all forms of drama: once he had completed his self-imposed task of seeing all Shakespeare’s plays on stage, he set about seeing all forty of Handel’s operas on stage; he is three quarters of the way to reaching this target. When he retires, he wants to write plays for the puppet theatre. He also loves music, literature, and walking, and has an inexplicable love of cricket. A friend once said of him that he has the unique ability simultaneously to raise and to lower the tone of any conversation.


Prof Alister McGrath

Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and Gresham Professor of Divinity in the City of London

BA, MA, DPhil, BD, DLitt, DD (Oxon)

Dr McGrath studied chemistry and molecular biophysics at Oxford University before earning first class honours in theology from Oxford University. He has worked at Oxford University, Regent College, and has been the Director of the Oxford Centre for Evangelicalism and Apologetics. Prior to this he was the Curate at St Leonard’s parish church in Nottingham. He was also the Principal of Wycliffe Hall between 1995 and 2004. His published works include the international bestseller The Dawkins delusion (2007), the award-winning biography C.S. Lewis: a life (2013), and the market-leading textbook Christian theology: an introduction (1993). The interaction between the natural sciences and theology has been a major theme in his work. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce as well as being a founder and member of the International Society for the Study of Science and Religion. He and his wife, Joanna Collicutt McGrath, have two grown-up children

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Dr Helen Moore

Associate Professor in English, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

MA, DPhil (Oxon)

Helen Moore is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Her research is concerned with the reception in English of continental and classical texts, the groundwork for which has been laid by bringing neglected texts back to academic attention. To that end she has published two scholarly editions (of the sixteenth-century prose romance Amadis de Gaule (2004) and the seventeenth-century play Guy of Warwick (2007)). Her publications include ‘Elizabethan fiction and Ovid’s Heroides’, Translation and Literature, 9 (2000), 40–64, and ‘Gathering fruit: the “profitable” translations of Thomas Paynell’, in F. Schurink (ed.), Tudor translation (2011). With Philip Hardie of the Classics Faculty in Cambridge she edited Classical literary careers and their reception (2010). She chaired the curatorial committee of the 2011 Bodleian Libraries’ summer exhibition, ‘Manifold greatness: Oxford and the making of the King James Bible’, marking the 400th anniversary of the translation of the King James Bible, and with Julian Reid edited the accompanying book, Manifold greatness: the making of the King James Bible (2011).


Dr Dirk Obbink

Director of Imaging Papyri, Associate Professor in Papyrology and Greek Literature, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, and General Editor, Oxyrhynchus Papyri

MA (Nebraska), PhD (Stanford)

Dr Obbink studied Classical Studies and Papyrology at the University of Nebraska before gaining his PhD at Stanford. He was an assistant professor at Columbia University before being appointed to Christ Church, Oxford University. He has also been one of the General Editors of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project since 1998. The project works to publish the Greek and Latin Papyri from Oxyrhynchus now in the Sackler and Bodleian Libraries. His Imaging Papyri project has made accessible heavily damaged papyri, considered irretrievably lost by some, so that they can be read for the first time. Dr Obbink’s publications include Philodemus and poetry: poetic theory and practice in Lucretius, Philodemus, and Horace (1995), and Philodemus On piety, part 1: critical text with commentary (1996). He has also been an editor for many volumes, including Oxyrhynchus: a city and its texts (2007) and Magika Hiera: ancient Greek magic and religion (1991). In 2001 he received a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on papyri from Oxyrhynchus and Herculaneum. In 2007 the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Dr Jerry Pattengale

Director of Education, Museum of the Bible

BS (Indiana Wesleyan), MA (Wheaton), MA, PhD (Miami, Ohio)

Jerry Pattengale is Assistant Provost at Indiana Wesleyan University (15,500 students), Executive Director for Nationalconversations.com, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute, Research Associate at Tyndale House, Cambridge, Senior Fellow at Baylor University’s ISR, and Research Scholar at Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary. He received the National Student Advocate Award (USC), two Professor of the Year Awards (APU), and a NEH Award to Isthmia, Greece, established the record viewership for Teaching Professor broadcasts (Madison, Wisconsin), and co-developed the Odyssey in Egypt program. Among his books are Biblical evidence (2011), Straight talk (2004), Why I teach (2009), The purpose-guided student (2010), and most recently Take every thought captive (2011), Beyond integration (2012), Book of Books (2013), and Buck Creek (2013), the best of his thirteen-year newsprint series. He regularly contributes to Books and Culture, and occasionally to national American publications, such as Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christianity Today, Chicago Tribune, Inside Higher Ed, and Christian Post, and has appeared in various television and radio broadcasts. He is Associate Publisher of Christian Scholar’s Review, a board member of Religion News Service, and co-editor for two GSI series (Brill Publishing).


Dr Stanley Rosenberg Executive Director of SCIO, and Associate Tutor in Church History, Wycliffe Hall, and Director of GSI Logos Conference, and GSI’s UK Region Director

BA (Colorado State University), MA, PhD (Catholic University of America)

Stan Rosenberg founded and directs Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford (SCIO), the UK subsidiary of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. He is a member of Wycliffe Hall and the University of

Oxford’s Theology and Religion Faculty, teaching early Christian history and doctrine. He graduated BA in history from Colorado State University and MA and PhD in early Christian studies and late antique history from the Catholic University of America. His research and teaching interests focus on Augustine’s works (the sermons in particular), early Christian cosmology and its relationship to Greco-Roman science, culture and philosophy, and the interplay between intellectual and popular thought during this period; he is also involved in contemporary discussions on the relationship between science and faith. Recent research has led to a series of articles in two subject areas: early Christianity and Greco-Roman science; and the intersection of preaching, popular religion, and the development of doctrine in the largely oral culture of late antiquity. Rosenberg co-directs two science and religion projects in Oxford, funded by Templeton Religion Trust and the BioLogos Foundation. He is on the advisory council of the Museum of the Bible, advising on both science and the Bible, and patristics. A recent article, relevant to Logos, attempts to work out some significant challenges in understanding how early theology developed in an oral context: ‘Beside books: approaching Augustine’s sermons in the oral and textual cultures of late antiquity’, in Tractatio scripturarum: philological, exegetical, rhetorical and theological studies on Augustine’s sermons (2013).

Prof Alison Salvesen

Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford; Polonsky Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Tutor in Oriental Studies, Mansfield College, University of Oxford

MA, DPhil (Oxon)

Alison Salvesen’s research focuses on the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in antiquity. Her interests include the Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible (Septuagint and later Jewish versions); the Aramaic Targums and the Syriac Peshitta; and the Latin of St Jerome’s Vulgate. She has written both on the translations themselves and on their reception in the milieu of rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity.

Currently she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Hexapla Institute and Project, which aims to produce an electronic database of what remains of Origen’s Hexapla, his compilation of versions of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew and Greek translations; Dr Salvesen is editing the Greek fragments of Exodus. She is an editor of the Bible of Edessa Project, which will produce annotated English translations of the Peshitta Syriac Old Testament and Apocrypha. She is also co-editor of The Oxford handbook of the Septuagint (forthcoming). Among her many publications is The books of Samuel in the Syriac version of Jacob of Edessa (1999).


Prof Stephen Tuck

Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford

MA, PhD (Cantab)

Stephen Tuck is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He was Director of the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), 2012‒15, and he co-leads an interdisciplinary network, ‘Race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century’, based at TORCH. He is currently working on a project exploring American religion during the Jim Crow era. Recent books include We ain’t what we ought to be: the black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama (2010), You the people: writing American history abroad (with Nicolas Barrerye, Michael Heale, and Cecile Vida, 2014), and The night Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union: a transatlantic story of antiracist protest (2014). He is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and a visiting fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard.

Prof William Whyte

Professor of Social and Architectural History, Faculty of History, University of Oxford

MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS, FSA

Like all historians, Professor Whyte is interested in people, but unlike many he is also equally preoccupied by things and places.He’s especially intrigued by what the serious investigation of the built and natural environment does to existing accounts of modern British and European history. His research has consequently often focused on architecture, and he has a special interest in institutions like schools, universities, and churches.

His first book, Oxford Jackson: architecture, education, status, and style, 1835‒1924 (Oxford University Press, 2006), explored the work of an influential university architect. His second, funded by a Philip Leverhulme Prize, was Redbrick: a social and architectural history of Britain's civic universities (Oxford University Press, 2015). As the final part of what's become a trilogy on university architecture, he is writing The University: a material history for Harvard University Press. Along the way, he has edited or co-edited eight other books. He is currently finishing a book on the sensory experience of Victorian churches, based on his 2014 Hensley Henson Lectures.

In addition to his academic work, Professor Whyte is a priest in the Church of England and serves the parish of Kidlington, to the north of Oxford.


Dr Peter Williams

Warden, Tyndale House, Cambridge; Affiliated Lecturer; University of Cambridge

MA (Cantab), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab)

Dr Williams currently serves as the Warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge. Educated at Cambridge in the study of ancient languages related to the Bible, he was on the staff of the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge, teaching Hebrew and Old Testament, before moving to the University of Aberdeen, where he was the Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Deputy Head of the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy. He had also been an Affiliated Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as a Research Fellow in Old Testament at Tyndale House from 1998 to 2003 before returning as the Warden in 2007. His published works include Early Syriac translation technique and the textual criticism of the Greek Gospels (2004) and Studies in the syntax of the Peshitta of 1 Kings (2001). His current research interest is producing a new edition of the Greek New Testament.

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ADDITIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION

SCIO: Scholarship and Christianity In Oxford

SCIO, the UK subsidiary of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, is a research and educational institute in Oxford. It strives to serve CCCU institutions in North America and elsewhere and the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty members of those institutions by producing and supporting scholarship of the highest standards. It offers two rigorous study abroad programmes, the Scholars’ Semester in Oxford and Oxford Summer Program, which enable undergraduates and a few graduates to develop academically and experience scholarly life at a major research university. It runs an increasing number of faculty focused research projects, with a particular focus on the relationship between science and religion and on ancient texts.

8 Norham Gardens 8 Norham Gardens is the main SCIO office. It has a seminar room, a tutorial room, a common room, and a kitchen, as well as the administrative and staff offices. It is equipped with a wireless network and has a computer and a printer for use. Logos participants are welcome to make use of the facilities at 8 Norham Gardens during office hours, when access can be gained by ringing the doorbell.

Common Room and Kitchen You are welcome to use the common room and kitchen downstairs. The seminar room and tutorial room are primarily for academic meetings and staff use and no one may use the audio-visual equipement in these rooms without prior permission. When the seminar room is not being used for these purposes it is available to workshop participants for study and quiet reading. The kitchen is fitted with a coffee machine and can be used to make tea at a charge of 30p a cup. Workshop participants must clean and put away all kitchen equipment and clean any cooking facilities that they use.

Computing and Internet One workstation is normally always available at 8 Norham Gardens. There is a wireless network that can be accessed here as well, and directions for connecting are provided on the notice board.

SC O offices, orham Gardens, Oxford


The Vines Logos participants will be staying in The Vines, SCIO’s Victorian house on Headington Hill. Rooms are shared, and breakfast will be available downstairs each day. Most other meals will be served at St Hugh’s College, where most workshop meetings will be held.

The address for The Vines is The Vines Pullens Lane Oxford OX3 0BX

It has a kitchen, a dining room, a large common room with television and DVD player, a study room, a prayer room, and a spacious garden.

Logos staff at The Vines Brian Clark, Assistant Coordinator for Logos in Oxford, will be living at The Vines, and will be very happy to assist Logos participants throughout the workshop. In addition, Thiago Alves Pinto is serving as Warden of The Vines, and is ready to help in matters relating to the house.

Computing and Internet at The Vines There are at least five computers in the IT room of The Vines that can be used to access the Internet and print free of charge. These are available 24 hours a day.

If you would like to access the Internet through your personal computer please use the encryption provided at The Vines to connect. The name of the network (SSID) is The Vines. Moving around the house might require reconnecting to the network using closer access point with a stronger signal.

Telephones Phones are available for use in The Vines, for free phone calls. You will need to dial 9 to call out. Free calls include only 0800 numbers (not 1800 numbers) and special emergency numbers such as 999. You must get phone cards to make all phone calls that are not free. Phone cards bought in the USA or from US carriers can be very expensive to use in the UK.

Cleaning and Laundry We have cleaners who help keep the common spaces in The Vines and 8 Norham Gardens in order. There are facilities for washing and drying your clothes at The Vines without extra charge. You are responsible for laundering your own clothes but additional clean linens can be found in the laundry room.

Security Please ensure that the front gate is locked behind you when you enter and leave The Vines property. Please also ensure that the door into and out of the the building closes behind you properly. This is important for the security of all the residents in the property. Never prop the door open.


St Hugh’s College

Logos in Oxford 2015 is hosted at St Hugh’s College, one of 38 constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. A relative newcomer, when it was founded in 1886 it was among the new women’s colleges established specifically to allow women to study at Oxford after centuries of exclusivity.

Women were at last permitted to earn degrees from the University of Oxford in 1920, and after a century of life St Hugh’s welcomed male students in 1987; all Oxford colleges now admit both men and women.

Meeting venues We will be meeting and dining at various locations throughout the college; please consult the St Hugh’s map to establish their whereabouts.

Chapel Part of the Logos programming includes meeting in the St Hugh’s chapel for worship. Participants are very welcome to use the chapel for private prayer at most other times.

Computing and Internet Wireless Internet is available at St Hugh’s. Logos participants will each be issued a username and password to allow them access from a personal computer.

Wycliffe Hall

Wycliffe Hall has always enjoyed a close relationship with the University of Oxford and in 1996 it became one of six Permanent Private Halls of the University in reflection of the broadening of its curriculum beyond the training of ordinands. As a result of this status, Wycliffe students may read for degrees of the University of Oxford.

The founders of Wycliffe Hall wanted to serve Jesus Christ and to exercise a transforming influence on both the church and the wider culture from within the heart of Oxford. The same vision remains at the heart of Wycliffe Hall’s ministry today (go to www.wycliffe.ox.ac.uk for more details).

Wycliffe Hall is a partner of SCIO and is a co-sponsor of Logos in Oxford 2016.

Holywell Street, Oxford


MENTORS

Dr Graeme Bird Gordon College

Dr Kevin Funderburk Baylor University

Dr Robert J.V. Hiebert Trinity Western University

Dr Warren Johnson East Texas Baptist University

Dr Jonathan Kirkpatrick SCIO

Dr Karl Kutz Multnomah University

Dr Marty Alan Michelson Southern Nazarene University

Dr Ute Possekel Gordon College

Dr Randy Richards Palm Beach Atlantic University

Dr James Shelton Oral Roberts University

Dr W. Andrew Smith Shepherds Theological Seminary

Dr Tommy Wasserman Örebro School of Theology

Dr Peter Williams Tyndale House, Cambridge

Dr Karen Winslow Azusa Pacific University

Dr Nick Zola Lincoln Christian University

Logos in Oxford


STUDENT DIRECTORY

Ruben Alvarado Multnomah University

GSI Mentor: Dr Karl Kutz GSI project: DSS F.Exod6, DSS F.Lev6 Degree: ThM — Theological Studies Track

I will begin writing my ThM thesis this summer with the goal of graduating in December 2016. My Thesis will be in the field of Theology and Disability Studies, which will combine my theological education with my 13 years of teaching adults with developmental disabilities. After graduation, I will continue in pastoral ministry while seeking opportunities to adjunct teach at the undergraduate or seminary level. I have a deep desire to form future leaders in the church. While a PhD is a possibility, I will be leaving this opportunity for a later time. My main academic interests are Historical Theology and Biblical Languages. Most recently I have been interested in studying rabbinic literature with a focus on passages regarding disability and deformity. My wife Jen and I have an amazing 10-year-old son who is as big of a Star Wars nerd as I am! I currently work at Imago Dei Community. I love baseball, reading, board games, and painting.

Gregory Barnhill Baylor University

GSI Mentor: Dr Mikeal C. Parsons GSI project: Greek Paul Project Degree: PhD, New Testament

I am finishing my second year in the PhD program at Baylor University, where I am concentrating in New Testament and hope to write a dissertation on Paul’s religious epistemology within his Jewish apocalyptic context. After finishing at Baylor I hope to teach in higher education, but I am open to high school and church contexts as well. I focus on Paul’s letters and theology, the use of scripture in early Christianity and Judaism, and textual criticism. My wife, Hallie, and I are enjoying our seventh year of marriage, and we have one daughter, Caroline. Although I am originally from Texas, I grew up in Birmingham, AL. Like your stereotypical graduate student, I enjoy a good cup of coffee and old books. I also grew up playing soccer and still enjoy it today through refereeing in local youth and adult leagues.


Brian Baucom Trinity Western University

GSI Mentor: Dr Robert J.V. Hiebert Project: Papyrus Bodmer XXIV (GC.MS. 170)

a Greek Psalter MS Degree: MA, Biblical Studies

I am originally from North Carolina, but moved to BC, Canada to get training in textual criticism at Trinity Western University. In addition to my work on the Museum Collection’s Greek Psalter manuscript, I have been working at Trinity Western as an assistant to one of the professors to prepare an edition of one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. I hope to begin a PhD in the next year or so, which will focus on textual history of the OT Greek Scriptures in relation to the Hebrew Bible with a particular focus on the Psalms. I am married to Christie and we have three children (4, 2, and 1 month). In my free time I enjoy spending time with my family outdoors.

Megan Burnett New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

GSI Mentor: Dr Bill Warren GSI project: Greek Paul Project Degree: PhD, New Testament

I am originally from southwest Missouri, but I currently study New Testament at NOBTS in New Orleans, LA. I am in the middle of my doctoral studies, and I plan to graduate in the year 2018. In addition to my studies, I do research for the Center for New Testament Textual Criticism here at the Seminary. Although textual criticism is my focus, I am also interested in social scientific criticism, particularly disability in the NT era. After graduating, I plan to teach New Testament at the college level, but I hope to be involved in research as well. Most of my family lives in Missouri, but I do live with one of my brothers on Seminary campus. In my spare time, I help with the children’s ministry at my church, read, make art, and play with my pet hamster!


Jeff DePue Shepherds Theological Seminary

GSI Mentor: Dr W. Andrew Smith GSI project: 1 Timothy Project Degree: MDiv

Upon graduation, I hope to become a pastor in a small church and remain there for many years, preferably in the great state of Texas. During these years, I would like to slowly proceed forward and earn a PhD in the field of exegesis or theology. If I am successful in this, I would still remain a pastor, but I would also enjoy teaching as an adjunct professor at a nearby seminary.

Gage Diffee Southern Nazarene University

GSI Mentor: Dr Marty Alan Michelson GSI project: A Fragment of Leviticus with the

inventory GC-SCR-000122, later DSS F.193 (DSS F.Lev5) by Eibert Tigchelaar

Degree: BA, Theology

I am a very fun person who likes to smile, make friends, and laugh. I have a beautiful wife whom I love spending time with as well. I am also a people person and love meeting new people and beginning new relationships. I also enjoy playing music; I play the drums at the congregation I attend and have played drums for over eight years. I also love the outdoors. I enjoy camping, hiking, hunting, and fishing as well as disc golf. I also love books. I enjoy the thrill of learning new things and concepts and challenging myself.


Kelly Freestone Scholarshi and Christianity in Oxford

GSI Mentor: Dr Jonathan Kirkpatrick GSI project: Two liturgical medieval Latin binder’s

fragments Degree: BA, Humanities

I’m a sophomore, currently working on accumulating credits through SCIO and other courses before transferring into a college to finish up and graduate. I technically hail from the Washington DC area, though I’ve grown up moving every few years and have spent about half my life overseas. When I’m not doing a programme with SCIO I live with my family (parents and two younger siblings), currently based about 15 miles north of Oxford. My academic interests are varied - literature, history, music, classics! — but right now Latin is definitely at the top. In my spare time I enjoy reading, playing the piano, and travelling.

Nathanael Greene Gordon College

GSI Mentor: Dr Ute Possekel GSI project: Transliteration and translation of a

chapter of a Syriac translation of The Ladder of Divine Ascent by John Climacus

Degree: BA, History

I’m a sophomore, originally from the great state of New Jersey. I am fascinated by early church history and modern American politics, especially foreign policy. At Gordon I work as an announcer for the Athletics Department and as a writing tutor in the Academic Support Center. At home I work for the Christian bookstore that my parents own. I enjoy canoeing and hiking in the Pine Barrens in my spare time.


Jesse Grenz Palm Beach Atlantic University

GSI Mentor: Dr Randy Richards GSI project: 1 Timothy Degree: MDiv

I graduated this May with my master’s in divinity and am applying for PhD programs for the coming fall. My desire would be to research scribal habits in Codex Vaticanus and eventually go on to teach biblical studies at a university or seminary. I have spent my past two summers in the middle east working with the refugee crisis and desire to continue supporting those who are serving in the face of so much need.

Lukas Hagel Örebro Teologiska Högskola, Sweden

GSI Mentor: Dr Tommy Wasserman GSI project: Greek Paul Project, 1 Timothy Degree: BA, Theology

I plan to write a dissertation in New Testament Exegesis or something New Testament-related. My main interests are the Greek language and the New Testament, but I enjoy reading a lot of other subjects as well. Right now I try to read some of the older Systematic Theological works and I try to read as many first hand sources as possible.

In my spare time I enjoy baking bread, playing a bit of computer games and reading books. I have a family of mother, father, sister and brother, of which I am the youngest. I have a fiancée (we’re getting married in September) with whom I spend a lot of time.


James Hansen Azusa Pacific Seminary

GSI Mentor: Dr Karen Winslow GSI project: Medieval Exodus manuscript Degree: MDiv

I finish my MDiv on May 7 and marry Amanda Parrish, a fellow MOTB scholar who will join us in Oxford, on May 14. My plans involve a hybrid of church and academic work. My goals for the next year or so involve adjunct teaching biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern history, and theology while continuing to be involved in a church context in the fields of youth ministry and Christian education. My interests include Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, ancient Near Eastern history and cultures, donuts, philosophy of hermeneutics, theological aesthetics, poetry, guitar, coffee, camping, tacos, and old Volkswagens. The dream is to co-pastor and co-teach with Amanda. The REAL dream is to live in an old VW bus/vanagon, traveling and writing.

Jonathan Hong Protestant University Wuppertal/Bethel

GSI Mentor: Dr Robert J.V. Hiebert GSI project: Transcription of parts of Papyrus

Bodmer XXIV (Ra 2110). Research on the placement of the Papyrus in the textual history of the Greek Psalter

Degree: PhD

Hi! I'm from Germany and I studied Protestant Theology in Wuppertal and Heidelberg. In 2010, I studied one semester abroad in South Korea and also had the opportunity to learn about my heritage. Since 2013, I have been working on my PhD studies and am planning to finish my dissertation which focuses on some selected chapters of the Greek Psalter in the next few months. In Autumn, I will start my Vikariat (pastoral internship) in the Evangelical Church in Germany. My academic main interest is exegesis. Besides my academic work, I’m involved in a church-planting project and some of my hobbies are basketball, soccer, as well as writing and playing music.


athan Jenkins Southern Nazarene University

GSI Mentor: Dr Alan Marty Michelson GSI project: A Fragment of Leviticus? (DSS

F.193 (DSS F.Lev5)) and Cairo Geniza

Degree: BA, Pastoral Ministry

Upon graduating in May 2017, I plan to travel to the Philippines for a year to work on a graduate certificate in cultural studies and then complete a Master’s of Divinity at Nazarene Theological Seminary. After Seminary, I plan to utilize my Biblical studies to offer deliberate theological practices for an inner-urban community. While I have only been studying Biblical languages for 3 years, Greek and Hebrew have remarkably contributed to both my spiritual and academic life. I am originally from Cimarron, Kansas, where I grew up working at my parents’ grocery store and I love spending time outdoors climbing, hiking, and camping. I am passionate about compassionate ministry and hope to serve God by utilizing theological and biblical studies to better shepherd those I will pastor.

Joel Korytko Associated Canadian Theological Schools at Trinity Western University

GSI Mentor: Dr Robert J.V.Hiebert GSI project: Transcription and further research on

Bodmer Papyrus XXIV (Ra 2110) Degree: MTS, Septuagint Studies

The first and foremost thing anyone needs to know about me is that I have a wonderful wife, April, and (as of the time I will meet all of you) a newborn child. On top of this, I have just had a major back surgery. Unfortunately, I gained a chronic injury 1.5 years ago while working as a sales rep. I say all of this to try and paint a picture of the disorderly universe I will live in as I come and see you all.

Home life aside, I find the textual world of the New Testament era to be fascinating. It is an age of ‘it is written.’ How it got to be so, and just what texts are held in high esteem, truly piques my interests. After my Master’s I will likely pursue either another degree of the same type or begin applying for schools to partner in dissertation work. In the meantime, I plan on expanding my horizons of language learning. I wish for a mastery of my Hebrew and Greek abilities, and will expand to German, Aramaic, and Modern Hebrew as I can.


Madeline Linnell Gordon College and Scholarshi and Christianity in Oxford

GSI Mentor: Dr Jonathan Kirkpatrick GSI project: The visual and textual components of

specific, liturgical manuscript fragments

Degree: BA, English Literature and Classics

In terms of academic plans, I would first like to graduate from Gordon. Beyond that, however, I am considering either applying to a master's program or journalistic research project. Specific topics of interest include Renaissance and early modern literature, Ancient Roman religion, manuscript production and sociology in Chinese rural communities.

I'm one of four girls (I'm number two) and currently live in Boston, MA. I love archery, photography and exploring, and in the next year I hope to learn Mandarin.

Shelby Loster Fuller Theological Seminary

GSI Mentor: Dr Christopher B. Hays GSI project: Green Collection Cuneiform Item 13

(a receipt) Degree: MA, Theology with an emphasis in

Ancient Near Eastern Studies

After finishing at Fuller Theological Seminary, I plan to take a PhD in Old Testament and/or Semitic Philology. I would love to continue my studies of the ancient Near East, ancient languages, and Old Testament at one of Oxford’s colleges. I greatly enjoy discovering and learning new languages. I especially love learning ancient languages because they unlock history to their decipherers. Besides studying ancient languages and Bible, I love spending time with my family. I have been married for twenty-five years to my husband Spencer. We have two grown sons, Saxan and Sawyer. When I am not with my family, I also enjoy meeting with friends. I am a strong believer in the importance of mentorship; therefore, I also spend much of my time meeting and talking with young women.


Daniel Marolf Abilene Christian University

GSI Mentor: Dr Jeff Childers GSI project: Codex Climaci Rescriptus Degree: MA, Ancient and Oriental

Christianity

I am in my last year of graduate work at Abilene Christian University, planning to teach following graduation. I am currently working on my thesis which includes editing and translating some works of John of Apamea from Syriac. I am recently married and my wife is also at graduate school, pursuing a career in hospital chaplaincy. We spend most of our evenings reading, writing papers, and watching our favorite sports teams.

Amanda Parrish Azusa Pacific Seminary

GSI Mentor: Dr Karen Winslow GSI project: Medieval Exodus manuscript Degree: MDiv

I greatly desire to teach undergraduate level Bible and Theology courses, and have hopes of beginning that journey within the next year. I am most excited about the opportunity to speak into lives of students and equip them to read the Bible critically and to discover that God is more marvelous than we could have ever anticipated. I am interested in Old Testament studies, ANE culture, biblical languages, contemplative spirituality, practical theology, and pastoral care.

I am originally from Washington state and now live in Southern California. Upon graduation from seminary in May of this year, I am getting married to my fiancé, peer, and best friend, James Hansen (who will also be joining us in Oxford as a MOTB fellow). Vocationally, we have similar goals of serving both in the church and in academics, and hope to serve on a church staff together someday. I enjoy reading, Volkswagens, hiking, writing, donuts, picnics, discussing theology, tacos, photography, and exploring new places.


Ryne Parrish Abilene Christian University

GSI Mentor: Dr Curt Niccum GSI project: Greek Paul Project Degree: BA, Biblical Text and Biblical

Languages

After graduating in May, I plan to continue my education this fall at the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University. I will pursue a Master’s degree in Theology with the hopes of eventually obtaining a doctorate degree so that I can teach at the university level. My academic interests include not only the text of the Bible but also, more broadly, the role which Scripture plays in theology. I hope to focus my study, teaching, and academic career on these aspects of Christianity. Additionally, I plan to participate in church ministry in some capacity, ideally as a preaching minister. Outside of the academy I’m just a kid from a small town in West Texas aptly named Levelland where I grew up surrounded by a supportive family and great friends. I don’t have a particularly great story to tell; I’m simply trying to live my life in a manner that continually says, ‘Here am I, send me.’

Brandon Pemberton Oral Roberts University

GSI Mentor: Dr James Shelton GSI project: Greek Paul Project Degree: MDiv

I am from the small town of Temple, Texas. My family has been involved in some form of ministry ever since I was born which led to my interest in both academic theology and practical ministry. My academic interests have leaned toward Biblical studies focusing mainly on the New Testament. My undergraduate degree is in New Testament Literature, and I would eventually like to pursue New Testament studies at the doctoral level. The Johannine corpus specifically fascinates me. I also have a love for Church history. I especially enjoy reading about the Desert Fathers, Celtic Christianity, and the Pentecostal/charismatic movements of the 20th century. My dream is to eventually get involved in an ecumenical effort that works toward reconciliation between Protestant/evangelical denominations and high church groups, such as Catholics and Eastern Orthodox. In my free time I enjoy a good game of golf or binge watching the Three Stooges.


Erik Pérez Trinity International University

GSI Mentor: Dr Richard Averbeck GSI project: Sumerian Clay Foundation Cones Degree: PhD in Ancient Near Eastern History,

Archaeology, Languages and Old Testament

It is my plan to teach, lecture, and publish in areas of interest in my academic field. My research focus includes Biblical Hebrew, Old Testament, especially the Pentateuch and Historical Books, ancient Near Eastern history, and Semitic languages. Within this framework, I am particularly interested in exploring the Old Testament in its ancient Near Eastern context. I was born in Guatemala but I have been living in the United States for several years. My wife Carmen and I enjoy running and nature walks.

Jackson Perry Baylor University

GSI Mentor: Dr Melinda Nielsen GSI project: Speculum Humanae Salvationis Degree: BA, Classics

I am a Baylor student focusing in Classics. This summer, I will have graduated and will be heading off to a MA program at the University of Kentucky. I will be attending LOGOS with my fiancée, Megan Renz. We have both worked on paleography for three years and are hoping to continue research in graduate programs. I am particularly interested in the interaction between material culture and texts, both in the Classical and Medieval period. I am also very interested in Patristics and the Western reception of patristic sources. Once, because I was enthusiastic about monasticism, I went to Skellig Michel off the coast of Ireland with my family and prayed in the monastic hovels. The trip over was very rocky, and everyone except me got sick while they were following me. This made me justly guilty. We were happy to later hear that the site has acquired a new community in the form of Jedi.


Joshua Rawleigh Gordon College

GSI Mentor: Dr Ute Possekel GSI project: Codex Climaci Rescriptus Degree: BA, History

I hope to pursue post-graduate studies in either history or literature upon finishing my undergraduate work at Gordon College. Besides Syriac language and culture, I am interested in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Britain, which I will be studying at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford for the 2016‒2017 Academic Year. Ultimately, I would love to teach and research in higher education. I am also interested in English Literature and Creative Writing. I am pursuing a minor in these fields at Gordon College. I am a member of the A.J. Gordon Scholars Program, as well as a member of the 2015‒2016 Jerusalem and Athens Program Cohort. I have attended conferences on Christian apologetics and evangelism with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries from 2014‒2016 and the inaugural conference for the Civilitas Group on racial reconciliation in 2015.

Sutton Rehwaldt North Central University

GSI Mentor: Amy Anderson GSI project: I Timothy Collaboration Degree: BA, Biblical Languages

My name is Sutton Rehwaldt. I am a recent Biblical Languages graduate from North Central University. I will continue my education in the Religion in Antiquity MA at the University of Minnesota in the Fall. My greatest academic desire is to pursue further proficiency in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. I believe that no thorough study of Judaism and Christianity can be conducted without mastery over their languages. In the long term, I intend to earn my doctorate and to become a professor in a Classical or Biblical Languages. I have learned over the last year that as much as I truly love learning, I just as equally love to teach, through time spent tutoring and being a Teaching Assistant. I have worked in the Registrar’s office at North Central for the past several months as the Registration Coordinator, and I will continue to do so until my program begins in the Fall. As for extra-curriculars, I enjoy running, playing tennis and ping pong. Lastly, I am spending a chunk of my time planning my upcoming wedding in November, to which I greatly look forward!


Megan Renz Baylor University

GSI Mentor: Dr Melinda Nielsen GSI project: Speculum Humanae Salvationis Degree: BA, Medieval Studies

I am going into the graduate program in Pre-Modern History at the University of Kentucky, studying with Dr Abigail Firey. I am interested in fourteenth-century English culture and theology, stemming from a senior thesis on the character named Conscience in the Middle English poem Piers Plowman. I’m fascinated by the way that the word ‘conscience’ has changed in meaning from antiquity to modernity, and hope to continue studying this from other angles. I have spent the year since graduation working on a small bio-intensive farm and goat dairy, while also, teaching a middle school class and tutoring Latin. These experiences have been quite excellent and formative, if challenging (goats can be dreadfully stubborn). Jackson Perry and I are getting married in August before we move to Lexington: we hope to learn spoken Latin, help each other to strive for excellence in scholarship, welcome students and friends hungry for the Truth of Christ into our home, have a lovely bunch of curious children, and live a beautiful life.

Denis Salgado

Shepherds Theological Seminary

GSI Mentor: Dr W. Andrew Smith GSI project: Greek Psalter Degree: MDiv

I have plans to finish my MDiv program in May 2018, and I am praying for God’s will regarding a future Doctorate. My desire is to serve at a seminary in my country, but I also want to preach the Word of God serving in a church probably as an assistant pastor. I appreciate studying the biblical languages, especially Greek. At the same time, I enjoy studying Systematic Theology as well. I am originally from Brazil, so I speak PORTUGUESE, not Spanish! It was in Brazil where I met my wife. She is from the US and her parents have been there as missionaries for 25 years. Although my wife was born in the US, she was raised in Brazil. We got married and came to the US in 2011 for seminary. I work as a translator and interpreter for a Christian radio program called ‘Wisdom for the Heart’.


Alyssa Schmid Multnomah University

GSI Mentors: Dr Karl Kutz and Dr Rebekah Josberger

GSI project: A Dead Sea Scrolls Fragment of Leviticus and a Kaifeng text of Exodus

Degree: MDiv, Theological Studies

I grew up in the desert of Southern California but I have lived in Portland for almost three years. I love the Pacific Northwest because it is so beautiful! Hiking in the Columbia Gorge with my dog is one of my favorite things to do. This fall, I will start my last semester at Multnomah Seminary and I am planning on graduating in December. I am not sure if I will pursue further education after this, but it is a possibility. I am passionate about the Old Testament and Hebrew, because I see God’s love for humanity so clearly through my studies of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Brandon Smee Baylor University

GSI Mentor: Dr Kevin Funderburk GSI project: Ptolemaic symbolon transliteration Degree: BA, Religion

I was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas (home of the world-champion Royals), but count Waco, Texas as my second home. Before attending Baylor University, I had never left the United States, but have since had the opportunity to travel both to India and Mongolia. I enjoy cooking and am currently making a concerted effort to learn the guitar. While my post-undergraduate plans are not set in stone, I am looking at attending graduate school, doing a program either in Early Christian or Biblical Studies. Language is one of the disciplines I most enjoy studying: I have had the opportunity to study Greek, Hebrew, and Spanish. I also love learning about the various cultures they represent and their literature, especially where they intersect with God and spirituality. Along those lines, I have also gained some experience in biblical (especially New Testament) studies along with world literature. Finally, both the local church and the global mission of God are close to my heart. I get to serve my church on the production team and as an active member in my college small group, and have had the opportunity to be a part of cross-cultural missions teams from my church.


Thea Stephens Lincoln Christian University

GSI Mentor: Dr Nick Zola GSI project: Romans fragment Degree: BA, Intercultural Studies

I grew up as a pastor's kid in the suburbs of Chicago. I was homeschooled from kindergarten through high school and I was heavily involved in musical theater until graduating high school. I surrendered my life to Christ when I was a toddler, but I began acting in commitment to that faith at age 13. I felt called to missions by age 15 and am now an undergraduate senior pursuing a degree in Intercultural Missions.

I have been interested in linguistics since high school. I completed a 5 month internship in Italy and Africa with Pioneer Bible Translators last fall. I have recently joined the organization. After graduation, I will get a MA in Linguistics from the Canada Institute of Linguistics. I then hope to serve as a full-time missionary with PBT in North Africa, doing Bible translation and church-planting.

Jennifer Straka Gordon College

GSI Mentor: Dr Graeme Bird GSI project: Iliad papyrus and Codex Climaci

Rescriptus Degree: BA, Biblical Studies and Linguistics

with a concentration in Biblical languages

My name is Jen and I will graduate in May 2016 with a BA in Biblical Studies and Linguistics with a concentration in Biblical Languages. I intend to obtain higher degrees in OT Theology and History with a focus on Hebrew. I have always been torn between pursuing either Greek or Hebrew, so I hope to get the chance to enhance my Greek in further study as well! My particular interests in studying the Bible as of late include narrative criticism in the Fourth Gospel and the Pentateuch. In my free time I enjoy reading a range of genres, from Jane Austen to Craig Keener, and hiking in the White Mountains.


Filip Sylwestrowicz Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary and yndale ouse

GSI Mentor: Dr Peter J. Williams GSI project: Codex Climaci Rescriptus Degree: MDiv

My name is Filip, I’m a native of Warsaw in Poland. Currently I live and study theology in Canada. After my master’s studies I plan to pursue a PhD in Biblical studies, God willing, in the UK. Still being a theological novice, I find a broad range of subjects fascinating: from textual criticism and narrative criticism, through to Old Testament quotations in the New Testament and hermeneutics. I am not sure at this point in my education, what would be my research focus later, but I lean toward New Testament studies. Another thing I consider is entering pastoral ministry and hopefully doing a mission work in Poland. In my leisure time I enjoy drinking coffee and reading fiction. Among my favourite writers are authors associated with Oxford — J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

Joshua Weber University of Northwestern — St Paul

GSI Mentors: Dr W. Edward Glenny and Dr Ardel B. Caneday

GSI project: Greek Paul Project (minuscule manuscripts of 1 Timothy)

Degree: BA, History and Biblical Studies

Although I will be teaching ESL in China next year, I hope to enter either seminary or a graduate program in Chinese history the year after. My academic interests include East Asian and American history, philosophy, and religion (particularly Confucianism and American foreign relations), as well as biblical exegesis and textual criticism. I also serve as a resident assistant, a teacher's assistant in the history department, and a part-time front desk worker. When I am not studying or working, I enjoy participating in the life of my church as a keyboardist, usher, and small group member; studying, reading, and reflecting on the Word of God; playing intramural broomball, ultimate Frisbee, and softball; and doing life together with the other members of my Campus Outreach discipleship group. Whenever possible, I play the greatest game known to mankind (baseball), and as a patriotic Minnesotan, I also enjoy getting to know the great Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul; relaxing in nature through canoeing, hammocking, exploring, or simply sitting out in the woods and letting my thoughts roam free; driving and going on road trips; and following my beloved Minnesota Twins, Vikings, and Wild.


Zachary Whitlow East Texas Baptist University

GSI Mentor: Dr Warren Johnson GSI project: The Textual Status of the Doxology of

Romans Degree: BA, Religion

I am a recent graduate of East Texas Baptist University with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Christian Studies, and will be continuing on with my studies at New Orleans Theological Baptist Seminary. I am seeking to obtain a Master’s of Arts in Christian Education with a specialization in college ministry. I currently work at Central Baptist Church in Marshall, Texas, where I am blessed to be their youth pastor. My calling I feel from God is to continue to serve in Student Ministry, starting in youth ministry and eventually going on to work in collegiate ministry in a church or college university. Originally a native of McKinney, Texas, I am the youngest of 4 boys (YIKES!) and a proud uncle of 3 (soon to be 4) nieces and nephews. Studying God’s word, spending time with my fellow believers and cheering on my Dallas Cowboys are my true passions in life

Chad Woodward Multnomah University

GSI Mentor: Dr Karl Kutz GSI project: DSS fragment of Leviticus 23 and Kai

Feng lectionary booklet of Exodus Degree: MDiv, Theological Studies

I live in Portland, OR with my wife, Zaneta and three sons, Nathanael, Nehemiah, and Urijah. I work at Multnomah University in the IT Department assisting students and faculty with various technological issues. My hobbies include watching football and cheering for our local sports teams. I also play guitar when I have free time. My goals are to complete my MDiv, continue my Hebrew studies with a ThM, and eventually earn a PhD in Hebrew and Ancient Near East studies. My desire is to teach Hebrew and Old Testament at the University level. My interests are to research and write about family dynamics and politics as it relates to the Ancient Near East.


Stephen Young

Shepherds Theological Seminary

GSI Mentor: Dr W. Andrew Smith GSI project: 1 Timothy Transcription Degree: MA (BLL)

I am pursuing a Master’s degree in Biblical Languages and Literature with a hope of one day pursuing a PhD in a related field and eventually teaching. I have been surprised with how much I’ve enjoyed the languages, and I have a particular fascination with linguistics and how human communication works in general. In the real world, I have been able to apply my studies in the form of preaching once a month to men in a local rehabilitation program for the homeless, which I’ve been doing for several years and would like to continue for several more. Having graduated with a pre-med BS in biology, I found my way into the IT industry where I’ve been working full-time in software engineering for 15 years. I like spending the scant free time I have with hanging with my wife and two daughters, reading, or rock climbing.

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